Notes There are two other versions of this pastel portrait by Carriera: one in the collection of Lord Walpole at Wolterton, which has been considered the prime version; one in a private collection, London, formerly belonging to Lord Boyne and sold in his house sale in 1956 to Ivor Worsfold, London.
Provenance ?Nathaniel Clements, The Ranger's Lodge, Phoenix Park, Dublin (probably until d. 1777); his son, Robert Clements, later 1st Earl of Leitrim, The Ranger's Lodge (probably 1777–82; inv., 1782 or shortly before) and Killadoon, Celbridge, County Kildare (1782–d. 1804); Earls of Leitrim, Killadoon (from 1804; inv. 1856); by descent to Henry T. W. Clements, Killadoon (by 1957–d. 1974); his great-nephew, Charles Clements, Killadoon (1974–2002; on loan to J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 2000–2001; sale, Sotheby's, New York, January 24, 2002, no. 54, to Sayn-Wittgenstein for MMA)
References C. Kingsley Adams. "Portraiture Problems and Geneology." The Geneaologist's Magazine 14, no. 11 (September 1964), pp. 387–88.Walpole Society 42 (1968–70), pp. 27–28, no. C.5, pl. 28c.National Trust Studies 1979 (1978), pp. 14, 16.Rosalba Carriera . Turin, 1988, p. 311, no. 268, fig. 235.Burlington Magazine 131 (December 1989), p. 857.Venetian Baroque and Rococo Paintings . Exh. cat., Walpole Gallery. London, 1990, p. 30.Anton Raphael Mengs 1728–1779 and his British Patrons . Exh. cat.London, 1993, p. 58.in Grand Tour: The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century . Exh. cat., Tate Gallery. London, 1996, p. 55.A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy 1701–1800 . New Haven, 1997, p. 116.Anton Raphael Mengs, 1728–1779 . Munich, 1999–2003, vol. 1, p. 274.Revolution in Art . Sotheby's, New York. January 24, 2002, pp. 16–18, no. 54, ill. (color, framed and unframed).
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